Shaw, Richard R.

Bangor native Richard R. Shaw is a 30-year veteran of the Bangor Daily News, where he enjoyed answering arcane questions as the city's unofficial historian and photograph archivist. His freelance features have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and he has served as a History Channel commentator. This is his fourth Arcadia Publishing book about Bangor. Author and photographer Brian F. Swartz is a 27-year veteran of the Bangor Daily News, where he edited special sections and The Weekly, a community broadsheet. An avid Civil War historian, he also writes the popular Maine at War weekly blog.